Faced with the urgency of the situation in terms of medical resources in rural areas, the section of the Lislois Socialist Party organized a public meeting on Friday June 2 at the town hall of L’Isle-Jourdain.
The inhabitants participated in large numbers in the public meeting organized by the section of the Socialist Party of L’Isle-Jourdain around the theme of medical desertification. In total, about 75 people came to ask their questions to David Taupiac, deputy of Gers, Vincent Bounes, vice-president of the Occitanie Region in charge of health, Jérôme Samalens, vice-president of the Gers Departmental Council, referent of the fight against medical desertification, and Murielle Abadie, vice-president of the Region.
The fight against medical desertification concerns a large number of sectors, general medicine, specialists, dentists… It is urgent to encourage doctors to settle in our rural areas by creating health centers where practitioners become employees, with health centers being part of private initiatives.
Vincent Bounes, who knows the subject well because he is himself a doctor, explained the importance of making young high school students want to undertake medical studies. The creation of university branches to allow 4th year students to stay on the territory and thus make them want to settle there is under study.
Create an environment conducive to settling in rural areas
Many courses of action are studied to make them want to settle in their own region. Indeed, studies pursued entirely in Toulouse run the risk that students begin a love story or a city life that could dissuade them from returning home.
It is important in the face of the urgent and recurring needs to train young people in these health professions, starting by offering opportunities to high school students. The Region offers first aid training which may inspire participants to work in the medical sector.
In addition, offering housing is also part of future projects to allow the permanent installation of young generations of doctors.
So many reflections to avoid medical desertification on which the deputies and the regional authorities are looking at both local and national level.